BILL NUMBER: ACR 149	CHAPTERED  07/12/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   97
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 12, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JULY 6, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 11, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Aanestad

                        MARCH 20, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 149--Relative to Post No. 1747
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 149, Aanestad.  Post No. 1747 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
of the United States Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 70 the Post No. 1747 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States Memorial Highway.
   The measure would request the Department of Transportation to
determine the cost of erecting appropriate signs or markers,
designating that specified portion of State Highway Route 70 the Post
No. 1747 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Memorial
Highway, and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering
that cost, to erect those signs or markers.




   WHEREAS, The Veterans of Foreign Wars traces its roots back to
1899 and the veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine
Insurrection; and
   WHEREAS, In that year, local groups were founded to secure rights
and benefits for those who had served their country in foreign
conflicts, including the American Veterans of Foreign Service in
Columbus, Ohio, and the Colorado Society, Army of the Philippines, in
Denver, Colorado; and
   WHEREAS, In 1901, the Philippine veterans in Altoona and
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded the Philippine War Veterans; and
the following year, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the home of
the American Veterans of the Philippine and China Wars; and
   WHEREAS, In 1905 these three distinguished Pennsylvania groups
merged with the American Veterans of Foreign Service; and
   WHEREAS, In 1913, the American Veterans of Foreign Service was
amalgamated with the Colorado Society, Army of the Philippines, and
became the Army of the Philippine-Cuba and Puerto Rico, and that
group subsequently became the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States; and
   WHEREAS, In November 1929, under authority of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, Post No. 1747 was organized in the
City of Oroville, California; and
   WHEREAS, The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is
celebrating its 100th Anniversary, and Post No. 1747 in Oroville has
diligently sought to protect the rights of California's veterans for
70 years; and
   WHEREAS, It is only fitting and proper that the efforts of Post
No. 1747 be memorialized by designating that portion of State Highway
Route 70 from Pacific Heights/Georgia Way to the westbound ramp to
Garden Drive that runs near the Headquarters of Post No. 1747, as
Post No. 1747 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Memorial
Highway; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates that portion of
State Highway Route 70 from Pacific Heights/Georgia Way to the
westbound ramp to Garden Drive as the Post No. 1747 Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States Memorial Highway; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs or markers,
consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway
system, showing those special designations, and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those
signs or markers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.
